Talk:Mining (military)

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I worry about the phrasing of undermining in the WWI conflict in the dolomites, which gives the impression that the marmolata and other peaks were blown up. Last time I checked, they were still there.

The conflict there resulted in the Via Ferrata, which were the tunnels to move troops around. I always believed that the primary attack was triggering avalaunches with artillery, not tunneling under the mountains. Which, believe me, would take a lot of energy to move.

We need more research here.

I fear that this page confounds two issues. A sap is a trench or a protected roadway that appoaches a fortification. A mine is the tunnel dug under a wall or tower to collapse it. A mine could logically be dug from a sap, but a sap could also be used to approach the fortification for a conventional attack. Hence the old name for the Royal Enigneers, Royal Sappers and Miners, two distinct jobs.

This article seems to be about mining, and not sapping.

MIW

Is there any reason the three letter acronym MIW redirects to this article? I can't see any explanation within the article. There is an article on Major Impact Wrestling for which I'd like to make MIW either a redirect or a disambiguation page, but I'm not clear on why it is currently pointing to this article. - Conniption 15:07, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Looking through the history of the MIW redirect I see that it originally pointed to Mine Warfare which in turn points to Sapping. I cannot guess what the I stands for. Nothing of any significance links to MIW so I would suggest it should point to Major Impact Wrestling instead. Gaius Cornelius 15:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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The term "sapper" was/is also widely used for explosives crews (in mining, construction etc.) It would be nice to see this reflected in the article.

I am also curious about the etymology of the term "poor sap". --206.248.149.78 01:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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Graeme374 (talk) 04:40, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Intro para

The opening para needs a clearer introduction of what a mine/miing *is*. Onanoff (talk) 17:03, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

"Mine"

The usage and primary topic of Mine is under discussion, see talk:Mine (disambiguation) -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 03:49, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

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